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Redemption Interrupted

This is an interesting story arc: The usual redemption arc continues until redemption. Getting halfway there and going off the rails back to the original personality is probably far more common in real life, but it’s very unusual in fiction. I haven’t gotten to the “Ends badly” step, yet, but I’ve read the April series…

My First Jelly

While I wait in hunger for the bread to cool, it occurred to me that I haven’t posted since before my computer died (power supply bit it). So, here we are. Much like the peas, this is not for self-sufficiency. I mainly want to cover up a chain-link fence, so why not grape vines? That’s…

The Fenris Effect

Not the self-fulfilling prophecy part. I’m not sure if my universe will have prophecy/divination or not, yet, but I really don’t like it. Dune did a good job with it, so it is possible. I just don’t like the idea of it. It makes the future and free will weird. I’m talking about the “I’m…